[ubuntu-in] Wireless Driver for Dell Inspiron 5160

[Sarfaraz Kazi]

2009/3/31 "Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा)" <mail at manishsinha.net>:
> Ritesh Sinha wrote:
>> Could you please post the output of
>> sudo lspci -vv ?
> I searched the net, it looks like you have a broadcom chipset. Broadcom
> does not have open drivers and bcm43xx driver which doesnt always work.
> Check this: http://ankurs.com/2008/04/installing-ndiswrapper-on-ubuntu-804/
>
> Though you can still make bcm43xx to work, but it doesnt always succeed.
> Check this:
> http://djkaos.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/installing-broadcom-80211-linux-sta-driver/
>
> --
> Manish Sinha
>

I've got the same wifi chipset on my laptop and it works perfectly
well by selecting the "Broadcom STA wireless driver" from "Hardware
Drivers". I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.2 on my laptop.

Regards,
Sarfaraz